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I-MABLE

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Outer Fields

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SBAM

Nirvana

Entanglement

Meridian

Coalescence

Superposition

Natural Selection S

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Divisions

Divisions is a MaxForLive MIDI Effect. Use various drawing tools to draw walls that balls can bounce off of. You can create up to 32 emitters to launch balls with different settings. When a ball bounces off of a wall, a MIDI note is output based on the setting...

Iridescence

Iridescence is a MaxForLive delay effect with arpeggiated note trails via a polyphonic real-time pitch shifting and delay system. You can select how many notes are in an arpeggiated “chord” created off of the audio input. Additionally, you can create up to 16...

Songbird

Songbird is a MaxForLive audio instrument. It features a simulation of a flock of birds, each bird having its own model of a syrinx (a bird vocal organ) as well as a model of a simple birdbrain that controls the syrinx to create different syllables. Each bird’...

data.train

data.train is a sampler mangler of sorts that can be used as an audio effect or instrument (works with dropped samples or live audio input). It centers around the modulation of sample playback and FX through a grid of math operators. Each playback and FX param...

Rhythmorphic

Rhythmorphic is a max for live MIDI Effect. It has four sequencers that can create “non”-euclidean sequences (patterns that are not evenly distributed) by morphing or warping a euclidean sequence by the topology (brightness values) of an image or video. This a...

Grain Forest

Grain Forest is a maxforlive granular synth and effect. The granular playback and FX are driven by a simulation of a forest that evolves through DNA mixing and mutations over generations. Each tree in the forest is an independent grain or voice that has its ow...

Mouth Play

Mouth Play is a maxforlive instrument that offers unconventional shaping of a vocal tract together with a simulated glottis (brass model) or FM oscillator as a source. This offers a large variety of sonic possibilities: from voice-like sounds (animal, human, m...

Pathways

Pathways is a sample-based Max for Live instrument that allows users to draw paths (made of small points) for sample playback over a spectrogram interface. The playback path (in blue) is based on which points were drawn first to last, allowing for all kinds of...

ODIOSKOP

ODIOSKOP is a Max for Live device that provides a floating oscilloscope-style visualisation for any Ableton Live track. Developed by Raphaël SAUER aka I-Mable, this device offers a real-time waveform display, track status monitoring, and customizable settings,...

AbleLOM 2

AbleLOM 2 is a Max for Live device that allows you to explore the Live Object Model (LOM) directly within Ableton Live in a graphical and intuitive environment. The device lists various Live object classes with their parent-child relationships, properties, and...

A0.gest

A0.gest uses the acceleration, position, 3D rotation, and cardinal direction of a smartphone to modulate any parameter in Ableton Live, as well as using the touchscreen as a 2-dimensional matrix modulator. Each sensor has a discrete map button assigned to each...

GROTTA

Grotta is Max 4 Live device developed to creatively work with the Outer Fields sound libraries and any other recording or live input. It’s an audio effect implementing a real-time granular synthesis algorithm using a multi-voices audio scanner that creates a c...

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Max/MSP stereo crush delay

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Indusdrill

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FED BACK (completeDevPackage)

$3.00

grainScrubber

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Quadrant Feedback + Beeper

$14.00

Something Like Images

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42Percent Noir — Easycontroller

£3.00

42Percent Noir - Forest

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Emotum - Stand Alone Max-Jitter Patch

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Gamepad Control

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Strymon BigSky CTRLR by MonkeyProofM4L

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PLLague (Max for Live)

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Feedback Madness v2.0.0 (M4L)

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